Bug 820281

Summary:	www-client/chromium: enable ARCH=riscv support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yixun Lan <dlan>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	apcameron, jstein, riscv
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	riscv
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	821400
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Description Yixun Lan archtester

2021-10-26 01:42:58 UTC

Opening this mainly for tracking the RISC-V arch support, there is currently one SUSE developer (Andreas) [1] pushing this, and it still need a few additional patches, I have built chromium-93/94 locally, it barely works but have problem/segfault with some URL

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Andreas_Schwab:riscv:chromium/chromium

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Cameron 2023-09-18 12:16:10 UTC

What is the status of this?
A number of Linux Distributions now include Chromium for Riscv.
Here are the patches used by Arch Linux https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages/tree/master/chromium.
Even the Debian release for the VisionFive 2 Riscv SBC has chromium 103. See https://github.com/starfive-tech/Debian/releases

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2023-09-18 13:04:30 UTC

(In reply to Andrew Cameron from comment #1)

We barely have the man power to maintain it for amd64. We would need a volunteer to maintain the necessary change for riscv.

Comment 3 Matt Jolly gentoo-dev

2023-09-24 05:57:25 UTC

(In reply to Andrew Cameron from comment #1)
> What is the status of this?
> A number of Linux Distributions now include Chromium for Riscv.
> Here are the patches used by Arch Linux
> https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages/tree/master/chromium.
> Even the Debian release for the VisionFive 2 Riscv SBC has chromium 103. See
> https://github.com/starfive-tech/Debian/releases


If you want to maintain, build, and test this please go ahead; I could use the help - submit a PR.

While I have RiscV hardware, each chromium bump is at least two hours on a fast amd64 system. Adding a cross compile and test to that is not feasible for me; I have enough trouble with the raptor engineering ppc64 patches and I trust them to maintain their stuff.

When riscv is upstreamed I'll happily maintain the keyword, until then, in the absence of a dedicated maintainer, I'm not going to entertain this ticket.